August 2011
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“no matter how seriously librarians are engaged in their work, they are always...”
– anthropology of an american girl, pg. 164 (via decisionsandrevisions)
Librarians - the truth of it
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Are we distributing content rather than creating... →
This is very true. We have become the lazy users of the lazy web. It is so much easier to distribute what others say. But also it can be said that others might say it better…
Here is my excuse and just to reinforce the whole theme I’m going to quote from T S Eliot (East Coker):
“So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—
Twenty years largely wasted, the years...
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Patron sets books to check out at the edge of the...
Librarian’s Thoughts: No sure that’s okay. I’m Stretch Armstrong. I’m Mister Fantastic and I’ll do it with a smile on my face.
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Foursquare: Has your business checked in? →
When explaining Foursquare to people, I often hear the baffled response, “So people check in places… and then what?”
Like any social phenomenon, it doesn’t have to make perfect sense to you in order to get on board, learn, and reap the benefits. Foursquare is a location-based social network,…
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives...”
– Author of Song of Ice & Fire has this gem George R. R. Martin (via morethansky)
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